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Entries tagged with narnia fic exchange 16

Oh my gosh, you guys, I am so sorry for being late with this. I had all the best intentions and then I probably just fell asleep. Surgery recovery is hard. :(

Anyway, all the authors are revealed now. Thanks a million times to aurilly and songsmith for all their help. Thank you to the pinch-hitters, who as usual, were heroes. Thanks to all of you for participating, and thanks to everyone for reading and leaving comments.

Thanks to everyone who submitted their assignments! I really appreciate you getting them in! We had a couple of defaults, so pinch-hits will be going out some time tonight (when I'm not at work). So pinch-hitters, be on alert!

And now is the time to work on your Madness prompts, if you're so inclined! :D

(Since I will be asleep at midnight and not actually checking AO3, that means your fic is due by the time I wake up in the morning. :D)

The fics will be revealed on September 11th to give the pinch-hitters time to work, so that means you have all that time to polish your fic, if you're still editing! Which god knows I will need too. So basically just have your fic uploaded tonight, and you can polish it if you need to.

Also, the Madness collection will open on September 11th too, so you've still got time for that!

I'll be having surgery next week, but aurilly should be around if you need questions answered.

Yes, that's right! The deadline for submissions is tomorrow, August 31st, by midnight. My midnight is eastern time, your midnight may be in a different timezone! That's okay, I'm flexible. If I wake up on September 1st, and your assignment is in, it's all good.

Just letting you know we're starting Madness a little early. FOR REASONS (mostly due to my convenience *g*).

Anyway, all the prompts can be found here. Feel free to pick one or many, and write treats, which you will then upload to the Madness Collection.

Remember you don't have to participate in Madness if you don't want to! It's not mandatory. By the same token, you don't have to be signed up for the NFE to participate in Madness! You can pick a prompt (as many as you want!) and upload at any time before September 11th -- there's no length requirement, and the only things I ask is that you don't go against the prompter's DNWs, and you don't publish the story anywhere else until after the reveals.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in comments, or shoot me an email: narniaficexchange@gmail.com. And definitely spread the word! If you think there's anyone who might be interested in writing a Narnia fic, tell them to join in! :D

Yes, finally! Well, still a few days early, but finally to me, since I've been wrestling with them since Sunday. :D

Anyway, you should all have your assigned recipient. If you have not received an email, let me know ASAP, and I'll figure out what went wrong. Remember, your story is due any time before August 31st, at midnight.

Hello everyone! I'm generating the assignments, and have run into a problem with AO3. I sent in a support ticket, and as soon as we get this issue corrected, I'll be sending out the assignments. Hopefully even by tonight, which will give you extra writing time!

NOTE: Because there didn't seem to be an overwhelming opinion on the changes, I made a few tweaks to the schedule. Both collections will be revealed the same day, and the author reveal will be a week later. The prompts for Madness will not be revealed immediately after the assignments go out, as this will give people participating in both more time to work on their assignment, also to stick to the spirit of Madness (writing as many fics as you want in a shorter time frame). Here's the final schedule:

Tag nominations open: July 1stSignups open: July 12thSignups close: July 23thAssignments sent out: by July 29thFics due: anytime before August 31stPrompts Revealed/Madness: August 17thMain and Madness collections open: September 11thAuthors revealed: September 19th

There will be more posts about exact deadlines, and Madness as we get closer to those dates.

Remember, if you have multiple prompts, you can make multiple (up to five) requests! All your prompts don't have to be in one request. I am mentioning this because last year some people's prompts had more characters than they had requested, because you can only request five characters per request. But if you make more than one request, you can request more characters.

Also, if you are requesting relationships, make sure to request those characters as well! The matching will be done by characters first! If you haven't requested those characters, but want them in a relationship, you're unlikely to be matched on those.

So you can see I had five prompts, so I made five requests. I was able to request more than five characters, because I used the multiple requests. I also requested relationships, AND the characters involved in those relationships.

For those of you who prefer your info on DW, the Narnia Fic Exchange DW feed is here! Thanks to yetanothermask for setting it up.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in comments, or email to narniaficexchange@gmail.com

Last call for tagset nominations! You can nominate HERE. I'll update the glossary below with anything that gets nominated by tonight.

QUESTION: If you nominated "Old Dynasty", what did you mean?

Below is a glossary of the freeform tags for this year's exchange. Please remember that you don't need to use them! They are here a) to specify if you want a story about your requested character(s) in a particular setting or dealing with a specific concept and b) for people want world-building fic and don't care who stars. Whether or not you use the freeforms, you should use the text boxes in the sign-up form to explain what you’re looking for.

For example, if I want fic about Susan and Edmund on a diplomatic mission during their reign, I would request Susan&Edmund (relationship) + Susan (character) + Edmund (character) + Golden Age (freeform), and then I would mention the diplomatic mission in the text box. If I want world-building fic about what happened in Bism after everyone went back, I'd request Underground (freeform), with no characters or relationships, and then explain what I'm looking for in the text box.

Tag nominations are open now! It will work the same way it did last year, and here's last year's Tag Set to refresh your memory. aurilly will be in charge of tags again, so keep your eyes peeled for some posts from her.

Here is the TENTATIVE schedule for the exchange:

Tag nominations open: July 1stSignups open: Sometime between July 11th - July 13th (depending on how long it takes to get tags finalized)Signups close: July 23th - 25th (again, depending on tags)Assignments sent out: by July 29thFics due: anytime before August 31st Prompts Revealed/Madness: July 30th - September 18thMain collection opens: September 11thMadness collection opens: September 18thAuthors revealed: September 19th

Reasons for the tentativeness of this schedule:1) Getting tags finalized before the assignments go out2) This year I've split the opening of the collections, as suggested by a participant. You'll have the main collection open for a week, giving you time to read and send feedback, and then the Madness collection will open the following week, with the authors revealed the next day.3) I want to hear your opinions on that new way of opening collections and revealing authors. If most are in agreement, we'll proceed like that. If you want it changed back to opening the same day, we can go that way too. And if you prefer to wait a week between the collection opens and the author reveals, rather than a day, that can change too.

(If you don't have an LJ account, you can make your opinions known in the comments!)

As usual, Madness is not mandatory, but it's always fun. And if you choose not to participate in the Main Exchange and just in Madness, that's fine!

Obviously the exchange will not be double-blind (as it used to be in years past) and you will know who you are writing for. If people want to write "Dear NFE Writer" letters and post them on LJ/Dreamwidth/Tumblr/wherever, that is fine, but not mandatory! You can put everything you want in your signup, if you like.

In the past, you've been allowed to request crossovers, and fic set in other people's fanverses. You can still do that, but those will have to go in the optional details part of the signup. You cannot request crossovers and fanverses only, though, as your assigned writer may not be familiar with the other fandom/fanverse. So remember to include some canonical requests.

There will also be a box in the offer part of the signup where you, as a writer, can talk about what you like to write, and also put ONE OR TWO dealbreakers of what you can't write (for example, "no incest and I hate Edmund Pevensie"). Bear in mind that it would be extremely unlikely in this exchange for you to say, "I can't write slash" and then get matched to someone who only requests slash. Most participants offer several options of what they want, and I don't see this changing.

Finally: I will be having surgery at some point during the course of this year's exchange, and it's possible that I'll be out of commission when the time comes to open the collections. But fear not, aurilly will be around, and lady_songsmith has volunteered to help out, so nothing should go off course. Thanks to both of them for going the extra mile!

Okay, I think that's it for now. Go forth, nominate, and ask any questions you have and I will try to answer them! You can email me at narniaficexchange@gmail.com too.